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Kunstler: Twelve Ham Sandwiches with Russian Dressing

Public Policy

So, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page declined to testify before a congressional committee because she didn’t feel like it. Apparently we’re now a rule-of-law-optional nation. Until recently, we were merely reality-optional. That was fun, but when officers of the country’s leading law enforcement agency go optional on standard legal procedure, like answering subpoenas, then we’re truly in the land where anything goes (and nothing matters).

After two years of Trump-inspired hysteria, it’s pretty obvious what went on in the bungled Obama-Hillary power handoff of 2016 and afterward: the indictable shenanigans of candidate Hillary and her captive DNC prompted a campaign of agit-prop by the US Intel “community” to gaslight the public with a Russian meddling story that morphed uncontrollably into a crusade to make it impossible for Mr. Trump to govern. And what’s followed for many months is an equally bungled effort to conceal, deceive, and confuse the issues in the case by Democratic Party partisans still in high places. It was very likely begun with the tacit knowledge of President Obama, though he remained protected by a shield of plausible deniability. And it was carried out by high-ranking officials who turned out to be shockingly unprofessional, and whose activities have been disclosed through an electronic data evidence trail.

Mr. Trump’s visit to confer with Russian President Putin in Helsinki seems to have provoked a kind of last-gasp effort to keep the increasingly idiotic Russian election meddling story alive — with Robert Mueller’s ballyhooed indictment of twelve “Russian intel agents” alleged to have “hacked” emails and computer files of the DNC and Hillary’s campaign chairman John Podesta. The gaping holes in that part of the tale have long been unearthed so I’ll summarize as briefly as possible:

1) the bandwidth required to transfer the files has been proven to be greater than an internet hack might have conceivably managed in the time allowed and points rather to a direct download into a flash drive device. 2) the DNC computer hard drives, said to be the source of the alleged hacking, disappeared while in the custody of the US Intel Community (including the FBI). 3) the authenticity of the purloined emails by Mr. Podesta and others has never been disputed, and they revealed a lot of potentially criminal behavior by them. 4) Mr. Mueller must know he will never get twelve Russian intel agents into a US courtroom, so the entire exercise is a joke and a fraud. In effect, he’s indicted twelve ham sandwiches with Russian dressing.

Tragically, the American public is led to take this ploy seriously by a morally compromised news media, especially CNN and the The New York Times. The latter outfit is so afflicted with a case of the Russian meddling vapors that it ran this laughable headline at the top of its front page yesterday: “Just Sitting Down With Trump, Putin Comes Out Ahead.” Gosh, what’s the message there? Don’t even bother talking to foreign heads of state, especially in the interest of improving relations?

The salient question that persons in authority might ask out-loud is how come so many officers of the Intel Community have not been hauled in front of grand juries to answer for their obviously incriminating behavior. Mr Mueller is perhaps too busy chasing Russian phantoms to draw up a bill of particulars against characters such as former CIA chief (now CNN shill) John Brennan, who apparently orchestrated the early chapters of the Russian meddling ruse, Bruce and Nellie Ohr, who ushered the DNC’s Steele Dossier into the FBI’s warrant machinery, fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who managed the Steele Dossier and its spinoff mischief as an “insurance policy” against Mr. Trump, Peter Strzok, who executed the “insurance policy,” and, of course, Ms. Page, his paramour, who decided that testifying before Congress was beneath her dignity. These and probably many others.

Tragically, also, these matters can only be fully corrected by the very Department of Justice that includes under its management the rogue FBI. Who else can formally and legally bring these cases before grand juries? The DOJ appears intent on preventing that from ever happening. Congress has so far omitted enforcing its subpoenas or using its impeachment power to dislodge obdurate DOJ officials. Mr. Trump, for now apparently, has declined to use his inherent executive powers to clean out this rats nest, say by removing secrecy shields from many of the documents at issue in the DOJ’s possession — most likely because he can’t afford to be seen “meddling” in the tangled proceedings. The net result of all this subterfuge, inaction, and gaslighting, is the defeat of the rule-of-law generally in American life. This ought to be taken seriously. If it’s asking too much of the system, then the system itself will eventually not be taken seriously, and that will be the end of the republic as we knew it.

Postscript:  I’m advised that Lisa Page did finally testify in closed session while I was out of the country last week. However, it took an extraordinarily long time for her to comply with the request, as detailed in this Tweet from Rep. Mark Meadows.

Post-postscript: Cable TV turned into a madhouse Monday night with CNN’s Erin Burnett and MSNBC’s Chris Mathews beating the war drums like Comanches waiting on a wagon train. Putin, they screamed, is the criminal head of a hostile foreign power. If they say so, it must be true. John Brennan, ex-CIA chief, calls Mr. Trump’s behavior  “treasonous” for doubting the veracity of seventeen intelligence agencies. To me, that suggests that the US has got too many intelligence agencies and that they may be a bigger threat to liberty in America than anything that Russia has done or is doing to us.

Kunstler



197 Comments on "Kunstler: Twelve Ham Sandwiches with Russian Dressing"

  1. Makati1 on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 6:44 pm 

    “MONEY IS MEASUREMENT BACKED BY MURDER.”

    “…the government of the USA is headed towards series of psychotic breakdowns, because its entrenched debt slavery systems have already generated numbers which are runaway debt insanities.”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-18/end-america-optimists-perspective

    Slip slidin’…

  2. Makati1 on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 6:47 pm 

    MM, didn’t take your drugs this morning? Get your fat ass off your mom’s couch and get a job, if you can. Your rants here are hysterically funny but would not be missed.

  3. JuanP on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 6:51 pm 

    Delusional Davy “Boney Juan, it is not your country so who gives a shit
    Who you think would make a good president. Go home anti-American. Make your failed South America proud somehow.”

    That was such a well thought out reply to my comment, Exceptionalist! It really reflects your superior intellect and education. It was exactly what you would expect from a kindergartner with mental problems.

  4. GregT on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 6:54 pm 

    “You’re welcome comrade!”

    товарищ?

  5. Makati1 on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 7:01 pm 

    ” One wonders at the stupidity of those who give money to NPR so that NPR can lie to them all day long. Like George Orwell foresaw, people are more comfortable with Big Brother’s lies than with the truth.

    NPR was once an alternative voice, but it was broken by the George W. Bush regime and has become completely corrupt. NPR still pretends to be “listener-supported,” but in fact is now a commercial station just like every commercial station. NPR tries to disguise this fact by using “with support from” to introduce the paid advertisements from the corporations.”

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/putin-confronts-the-american-dystopia/5647816

    Slip slidin’…

  6. Makati1 on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 7:05 pm 

    United we stand. Divided we fall.

    “At a time when the American people need unity to stand up to warmongering and greed, there is no unity. Races and genders are taught to hate one another. It is everywhere you look.

    Compared to the America I was born into, the America of today is fragile and weak. The only effort at unity is to create unity that Russia is the enemy. It is just like George Orwell’s 1984. In other aspects the current American dystopia is worse than the one Orwell described.”

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/putin-confronts-the-american-dystopia/5647816

    Slip slidin’…

  7. MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 7:11 pm 

    Trump’s Tax Cut Hasn’t Done Anything for Workers

    https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-18/trump-s-tax-cut-hasn-t-done-anything-for-workers

  8. Makati1 on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 7:18 pm 

    “The Fourth Amendment is not just an idea…

    But it was adopted in 1792, long before the days of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act. All that stuff about Constitutional protections is now moot, a footnote in the story of when America was a free country.”

    https://journal-neo.org/2018/07/18/when-did-the-bill-of-rights-become-a-bad-joke/

    Slip slidin’…

  9. MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 7:29 pm 

    Deficit Projected to Top $1 Trillion Starting Next Year

    Most recent administration estimates show challenge of reducing red ink

    WASHINGTON—The Trump administration expects annual budget deficits to rise nearly $100 billion more than previously forecast in each of the next three years, pushing the federal deficit above $1 trillion starting next year.

    The revisions, which went largely unnoticed when the White House submitted its annual update to Congress last week, reflect the cost of federal spending increases agreed to earlier this year and higher interest payments.

    The budget proposal released in February showed annual deficits totaling $7.1 trillion over 10 years. The latest revisions increase these cumulative deficits by $926 billion, to $8 trillion.

    The report highlights the challenge the Trump administration faces in reducing deficits. Administration officials have said stronger economic growth would allow recent tax cuts to generate more revenue over the long run, offsetting initial declines in receipts from rate cuts.

    But the latest projections show the deficit rising even though the administration projected an even stronger uptick in federal revenue.

    While President Donald Trump “used to talk about creating such great economic growth to reduce the deficit, now you see a budget acknowledging a massive run-up due to policies he has supported,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which supports debt reduction.

    “Their policies are not pared with a single recommendation to start making [the deficit] better,” said Ms. MacGuineas.

    The White House budget office now estimates that the deficit will rise to nearly $1.1 trillion in the fiscal year that begins this October, or 5.1% of gross domestic product, up from $984 billion projected in February’s budget proposal. The U.S. ran a deficit of $666 billion for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2017, or 3.4% of GDP.

    “Gigantic deficits are not good, and we’re going to run, as a share of GDP, 4%, 5%,” said Lawrence Kudlow, director of the White House National Economic Council, at a conference hosted by CNBC on Wednesday. “That’s not bad. I’ve seen worse.”

    Since World War II, the U.S. has posted budget deficits that exceeded 5% of GDP in just two periods—in 1983 and from 2009 through 2012. Both of those episodes followed periods of significant economic stress, including the only recessions in which the unemployment rate rose to at least 10%. The White House expects the unemployment rate, currently at 4%, to reach 3.7% next year.

    Mr. Kudlow said tax cuts would initially lead to declines in federal revenue but that the government could recoup those losses over time. “Yes, we will lose some revenues in the very short run. I believe we’ll get it back and more,” he said Wednesday.

    More than half of the increase in the higher deficit forecast resulted from federal spending increases approved earlier this year. Both parties chafed against spending caps set in law as part of a 2011 deficit reduction agreement, and they reached a new deal in February to loosen those curbs.

    The White House later submitted plans to rescind smaller amounts of spending previously authorized by Congress. The House of Representatives approved last month a bill to rescind $15 billion in spending, but the measure lacks sufficient support in the Senate.

    The White House also revised up its projections of interest rates this year and next, which together with the funding boost increased projected interest payments on the public debt. The Trump administration estimates those will rise by $161 billion above prior forecasts over the coming decade.

    The White House now expects yields on the 10-year Treasury note will average 3% this year, up from 2.6% in February, and 3.2% next year, up from 3%. Those estimate are still below projections by private forecasters or the Congressional Budget Office.

    The deficit projections would have swelled even higher if not for estimates of increased receipts. The White House expects revenues will rise $95 billion over the coming decade above previous projections, in part from estimates that stronger economic growth will boost household incomes.

    Write to Nick Timiraos at nick.timiraos@wsj.com

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/deficit-projected-to-top-1-trillion-starting-next-year-1531950742?mod=e2tw&page=1&pos=1

  10. Makati1 on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 7:31 pm 

    On topic: “In an effort to divert publicity away from the Capitol Hill testimony of disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok, and to subvert President Trump’s ongoing efforts toward peace with Russia, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the Mueller Investigation’s single indictment of Twelve Russian intelligence officers for alleged election hacking under President Obama’s watch; even though, according to Rosenstein , “no American was a knowing participant” in the Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election and there was “no allegation in the indictment of any effect on the outcome of the election” .”

    http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/u-s-president-donald-trump-initially-refused-to-acknowledge-manufactured-reality_07182018

    Slip slidin’…

  11. Davy on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 7:38 pm 

    “Retirement is great!”

    sure grehggie then why are you seeing a therapist?

  12. Davy on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 7:40 pm 

    “That was such a well thought out reply to my comment”

    go home boney juan

  13. MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 8:02 pm 

    Madkat is sharing articles from SHTFPLAN?

    Don’t forget to purchase a few months of dried food from the ads sponsored on every article.

  14. GregT on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 8:05 pm 

    “sure grehggie then why are you seeing a therapist?”

    More delusions Davy. Get help buddy.

  15. GregT on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 8:07 pm 

    “go home boney juan”

    Does it bother you that JuanP spends so much time on the ocean Davy, and doesn’t stay at home all day like you do?

  16. MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 8:14 pm 

    Madkat

    Trump’s Trade War May Spark a Chinese Debt Crisis

    A tighter dollar will make the bursting of the credit bubble an inevitability.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-17/trump-s-trade-war-may-spark-a-chinese-debt-crisis

    We will win the trade war! Bye bye slant eyes!

  17. MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 8:32 pm 

    Economic Collapse Will Be the Least of the United States’ Problems

    This conflict might best be described as another American Civil War.

    It doesn’t need sophisticated weapons. As the U.S. economic collapse gathers momentum, the new civil war will aggravate situations that have already started.

    Social breakdown is already happening, but the financial markets have masked the ever-growing risk of economic collapse.

    Trump did not set the U.S. economy on its current destructive path. Yet, indirectly, the president has hastened the process of economic collapse.

    Economic collapse will be a mere symptom of a bigger catastrophe.

    https://www.lombardiletter.com/economic-collapse-new-civil-war/29256/

  18. DerHundistLos on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 8:45 pm 

    Madkat:

    Republicans have always dreamed of eliminating all public support for NPR and PBS. Last I checked, all public support was officially withdrawn in 2017. I agree with your criticism, but the organizations MUST receive corporate support otherwise it’s lights out. Seriously, do you have a better plan? Back when you enjoyed NPR’s journalism did you provide support via a donation of any amount?

  19. Makati1 on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 9:13 pm 

    Der..if you believe that the Us government doesn’t support one of their main brainwashing sites, I have a bridge in Brokylin that I can sell to you cheap. LMAO

  20. Makati1 on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 9:17 pm 

    MM, if I was a worthless piece of shit like you, I would off myself today to save resources for others who have a realist view of life and the future.

    You can only parrot what your masters program you with. So far, no signs of intelligence or even maturity in your posts. Give it up and get a job.

  21. MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 9:26 pm 

    Hubbert Curve’s Halfway Point May Be Imminent For Conventional Crude

    The world has produced as much conventional crude oil cumulatively, as we have currently in proven reserves. Based on Hubbert curve theory, it is an indication of peak oil.

    Unconventional resources have helped and will continue to help avoid severe oil scarcity, but it cannot make up for a potential permanent decline in conventional oil production.

    If there is one factor which in my view stands above all in regards to why the peak oil theory supporters got it wrong, it has to do with human nature and currently prevailing culture. They felt it was a very important topic in regards to the future of humanity, which they correctly sensed that it had to have imminent implications if it was to gain social relevance. For this reason they ignored other factors such as the effects that price can have on ultimate recovery from fields, as well as to what extent it could support the production of relatively vast unconventional reserves, such as oil sands or shale. Because they could not accept that such factors could greatly change the outlook for global oil supply they had the timing way off, in the process leading to what I consider to be a temporary, rather than permanent defeat of the theory in the eyes of the public. The reason why I believe that it is a temporary defeat, is because we are still dealing with a finite resource, which at the moment we still have a growing appetite for, which makes dismissing this theory absurd.

    As far as new discoveries are concerned, for the past four years in a row, it has been significantly under 5 billion barrels, meaning that less than 10 billion barrels of oil in place per year have been discovered. Current conventional crude oil production is about 27 billion barrels per year.

    I think we may perhaps be reaching the point where given the prevailing average price of the past years of around $80/barrel, we are once again reaching the point of peak maximum potential conventional oil production, in the absence increasing recovery rates.

    Unconventional cannot make up for potential conventional production losses.

    https://seekingalpha.com/article/4187991-hubbert-curves-halfway-point-may-imminent-conventional-crude

  22. Makati1 on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 9:28 pm 

    Also, Der, I never listed to NPR because it was ALWAYS an obvious Us MSM propaganda machine. You would have realized this, if you were intelligent enough to think for yourself. Why else would it exist?

  23. MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 9:45 pm 

    Madkat

    I know you always read quality news sites like SHTFPLAN, Orangicprepper,Zerohedge..

    Only articles written by a fictitious movie actor are trustworthy…/s

  24. MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 11:02 pm 

    Madkat

    You are going to give yourself an ulcer..Go get yourself a Popsicle and watch some “love island”..

  25. Cloggie on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 11:48 pm 

    “The-West-is-over” latest:

    Hungary follows the example of Trump-America and cancels the UN migration pact:

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-hungary-un/hungary-to-quit-un-migration-pact-shunned-by-washington-idUSKBN1K81BS

    The Global Compact For Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was approved on Friday by all 193 U.N. member nations except the United States, which pulled out last year.

    “Its main premise is that migration is a good and inevitable phenomenon … We consider migration a bad process, which has extremely serious security implications.”

    Hopefully the Hungarian example is followed by other eastern European countries and Italy and Austria.

    Migration is NOT inevitable but purely UN-agenda driven.

    Japan is a good example of a rich country with ZERO immigration.

    Eurasia should entirely withdraw from all UN institutions, a club founded by the winners of WW2 and instead start all over again with truly global institutions serving the interests of a multi-polar world, not those of “Anglo-Zionist” oligarch exceptionalists who think they can have it all.

    Expect that to happen after WW3/CW2, that will cancel unipolar hegemony, the West and the empire.

  26. MASTERMIND on Wed, 18th Jul 2018 11:58 pm 

    Clogg

    Overshoot in the population is the root cause of all of the worlds problems.. If you think any party can fix this you are out of touch with reality..

  27. joe on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 12:09 am 

    Pointer, it didn’t start with Trump, the lies that is. The Gulf of Tonkin fabrication happened under a Democratic President. Americans today still don’t realise that members of al qeada were fighting in Balkans and the Christian population there were fighting for their lives, they got bombed by America for their choice to accept help from Russia. That was a democratic president too. Let’s not even mention Iraq….
    Trump is mild compared to what’s come before. Trump is easy to catch out cause he’s not a very good liar.

  28. Cloggie on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 12:17 am 

    Another post disappearing through the memory hole if posted in one piece, perhaps because of the links. So forced to break it up again:

    Talking about WW3…anti-Chinese containment efforts underway in the Pacific by Anglo powers:

    https://www.rt.com/op-ed/433612-australia-new-zealand-china-pacific/

    https://www.rt.com/op-ed/421726-china-australia-pacific-collision/

    RT likes what it sees: By watching the news on a regular basis, most of you probably wouldn’t even be aware that the major players in the entire Pacific theatre are preparing for war. Don’t say we didn’t warn you though; in March of this year I wrote an op-ed entitled “Australia and China on Pacific Ocean collision course and no one’s talking about it” in an honest attempt to get this story on the media’s radar… Australia and New Zealand are in talks to sign a new “wide-ranging” security pact with other nations in the South Pacific with a specific intent of confronting China’s expanding influence… The United States, Australia and New Zealand genuinely fear the expansion of China’s influence throughout the Pacific region.

    Never one to quit, the Australian government is reportedly planning to spend more than $5 billion USD on long-range surveillance drones to bolster its maritime security in the South China Sea. The biggest benefactor of this arrangement is the United States military industrial complex in more ways than one; namely, because it is the US navy which will be supplying the aircraft and reaping the money (but also because the US has entrusted Australia to act as its buffer against China’s expanding influence in the Pacific region in the first place).

    [part 1]

  29. Cloggie on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 12:18 am 

    And here comes part:

    This is precisely the stupidity Australian former PM Malcolm Fraser has warned against:

    https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2015/01/02/america-australias-dangerous-ally/

    If for some reason (read: CW2) the US would fall away as a backup power, Australia has created the pretext to offer itself as a defenseless but tasty prey to China, that could solve its overpopulation problem in one stroke by invading and digesting Australia.

    In that case nobody would come to the aid of Australia. Certainly not China-ally Russia, but also populist neo-fashy continental Europe would remember that Australia was used (as a British colonial resource) twice against continental Europe…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ZeJvXTL68

    [part 2]

  30. Cloggie on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 12:21 am 

    And finally part 3:

    …not exactly a great motivator to come to the aid of the hapless Australians. Especially in the case of a hard-Brexit, motivation will be zero.

    On a positive note, the British homeland is in danger itself and already lost its illustrious capital to Islam…

    https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uTiANSbg8ss/maxresdefault.jpg

    …providing a motive for British-rooted Australians to give up on Australia (unless you like the smell of cooked noodles and Peking-duck) and return to the British isles, in order to defend them.

    http://tinyurl.com/y8ydx6a9

    [part 3]

  31. Cloggie on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 12:31 am 

    Overshoot in the population is the root cause of all of the worlds problems.. If you think any party can fix this you are out of touch with reality..

    That’s merely your Anglo-Zionist agenda millimind, but Japan proves that it is very easy to keep invaders out. And even Australia successfully implemented a “push-back” policy.

    For America it is already too late to survive in its present shape, but that is OK. Rather than millimind and the US deep state plotting for a false flag and nuclear first strike against Russia, the future Paris-Berlin-Moscow condederation can plan for conq… um liberation of parts of majority-white North-America and reintegrate them in the restored European world, post-Anglo-Zionism.

    Trump is only a small sign of things to come.

    https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2018/06/11/cw2-brewing/

  32. MASTERMIND on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 1:16 am 

    Clogg

    Japan’s debt to GDP is the highest in entire world at over 250 percent..I wouldn’t bet bragging about them..

    Nobody gives a shit about stupid fucking immigrants..the OECD countries problems are economic not social..You have swallowed right wing fake news like mothers milk..

  33. MASTERMIND on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 1:28 am 

    UK investigators believe they identified Skripal attack suspects

    The investigators reportedly believe that “Russians” are involved in the attack after they analyzed CCTV footage.

    “Investigators believe they have identified

    the suspected perpetrators of the Novichok attack through CCTV and have cross-checked this with records of people who entered the country around that time. They [the investigators] are sure they [the suspects] are Russian,” the Press Association said citing “a source with knowledge of the investigation.”

    https://www.rt.com/uk/433654-skripal-suspects-press-association/

    This will be front page news in the US tomw..perfect timing to feed into the current anti russia propaganda..

    HIT EM HARD!

  34. Cloggie on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 1:28 am 

    “Japan’s debt to GDP is the highest in entire world at over 250 percent..I wouldn’t bet bragging about them..”

    Big yawn, after a financial collapse it simply means that Japanese pensioners need to work again.

    Their problem.

    You North-Americans are all so money-centric! You don’t know (yet) what a real collapse of society means. A debt jubilee is just a minor crash.

  35. Cloggie on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 1:35 am 

    “This will be front page news in the US tomw..perfect timing to feed into the current anti russia propaganda..
    HIT EM HARD!”

    Please do, topple Trump and maneuver the US into WW3 against Russia and hence China, with Europe neutral, initially.

  36. joe on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 4:48 am 

    In the age of the deepfake, how can we trust anything?

  37. DerHundistLos on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 5:16 am 

    Oh sure, Joe, Trump is no different than other presidents EXCEPT Trump is a habitual liar. Dump lies so frequently that he is incapable of distinguishing fact from fiction. Between when President Pumpkinhead assumed office in January 2017 and the end of April, the average number of public false or misleading statements he has made per day has been increasing. According to the Washington Post’s fact checkers on May 1, “for the president’s first 100 days, Trump averaged 4.9 false claims a day… since we last updated this tally two months ago, the president has averaged about 9 lies a day. This is a significant rise. Our calculations suggest that if the current escalation rate remains steady, by the end of his term the president could be making as many as 19 public false statements a day, on average.”

  38. JuanP on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 6:19 am 

    Delusional Davy “go home boney juan”

    I am home, Exceptionalist. My home is planet Earth. I just had breakfast with my beautiful wife while watching the sun rise over the ocean and listening to the surf crash on the shore. What do you consider your home? Your family’s farm in flyover country? You are the one who is a radical extremist nationalist, not me. I consider countries stupid human ideas.

  39. Davy on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 6:29 am 

    boney juan, in the name of respect for others who are tired of the ad hominem attacks that represent selfish behavior just contribute something to increase our knowledge quit contributing something to satisfy your emotional ego. Yesterday was yesterday “say something” today.

  40. pointer on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 6:33 am 

    If Trump was your employee, what would you do? Would you not fire his *ss for bullsh!tting incompetence.

    Wait, according to the model of American government, Trump does work for us. It is time for “You’re fired, dotard!”.

    I personally am sick and tired of the gaslighting attempts. We are about to fly off a metaphorical cliff like Thelma and Louise, and our government is doing nothing but lining the pockets of the 0.1% instead of doing what it can to soften the landing. The poetic justice will be that the 0.1% will go off the cliff with us, and probably will be rounded up by lynch mobs that survive.

  41. Davy on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 6:35 am 

    “Gallup Shows How Much Americans Really Care About The “Situation With Russia”
    https://tinyurl.com/yc99lyxv

    “While ever-hope-filled expectations among the left are for a ‘blue wave’ in the Mid-term elections, we suspect things may not turn out quite as planned given the last week’s “crisis”. Even before President Trump had set foot in Helsinki, the left and the media were banging the drums of war against “the thug” Putin and how he would trump Trump, and once the press conference furore was over, all hell broke loose as the left-leaning world attempted to out-signal one another’s virtue as to the “treasonous”, “surrender” that had occurred. So much so – in fact – that the internet became ‘full’ of “Trump” and “Treason” chatter – more so even than when he joked in July 2016 about Russia having Hillary’s missing 30,000 emails. Once again – the “Russia, Russia, Russia” cries drowned out any sane discussion of the end of cold war 2.0. There’s just one problem with the Democrats’ unending focus on Russia and the media’s constant collusion chatter: few Americans care, because – drumroll – they have real lives in the real economy to worry about. As the latest survey from Gallup shows: when asked what the most important problem facing the nation is, Russia did not even warrant a 1% – and worse still, it is declining in importance from there. As David Sirota noted, “Gallup recently did a poll of what Americans say is the most important problem facing the country. One finding: the percentage of Americans saying “Situation with Russia” is the most important problem is literally too small to represent with a number. “

  42. Makati1 on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 6:41 am 

    As usual, Davy has nothing of importance to say. He just attacks the messenger, not the message. That changes nothing.

    Slip slidin’…

  43. pointer on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 6:53 am 

    Joe, of course politicians have lied to us since the time the beginning of human existence. The dotard and his collaborators take it to an unprecedented level. Take for example the bullshit about “no” yesterday, or the bullshit about “would” the day before. Are you really that gullible to believe this crap? How much effort and energy do you really want to expend debunking obvious bullshit? It takes a lot of effort and energy to debunk even the most obvious and ridiculous claims, and the dotard and his professional lie manufacturers know this. They’ll keep on with this crap as long as we let them.

  44. Davy on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 6:59 am 

    “As usual, Davy has nothing of importance to say. He just attacks the messenger:”

    read this:

    Davy on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 6:04 am

    think about this:

    Davy on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 6:29 am
    in the name of respect for others who are tired of the ad hominem attacks that represent selfish behavior just contribute something to increase our knowledge quit contributing something to satisfy your emotional ego. Yesterday was yesterday “say something” today.

  45. JuanP on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 7:07 am 

    Delusional Davy “boney juan, in the name of respect for others who are tired of the ad hominem attacks that represent selfish behavior just contribute something to increase our knowledge quit contributing something to satisfy your emotional ego.”

    Translation: Davy has been losing every argument with Juan and regrets picking a fight with him because Juan beats him every single time. Davy has been bullying others here on a daily basis for years, but he Claims Juan is the bully. LOL!

    I will stop bullying you when you stop bullying others, Exceptionalist! I am not concerned with your attacks against me, fool. I don’t give a fuck what you do or say to me. I have been immune to bullies and idiots since I was born. It is your attacks against others that I am sick and tired of. It is in your hands, Davy. I don’t attack you when you write good comments, do I? I only attack you when you attack. I know you want me to stop or go, but I won’t. I warned you repeatedly that you would regret picking a fight with me and you still did it. Enjoy the punishment now! LOL!

  46. Makati1 on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 7:26 am 

    Davy, your attacks stopped for an eye blink, but you cannot stay civil. It’s against your nature. You are a bully, stalker, internet terrorist suffering delusions of grandeur. Nothing more. Nothing less.

  47. Davy on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 7:28 am 

    Come on Boney Juan. Do you really believe you are right and I am wrong? Quit your games and contribute If you attack me you will get it back. I tried for 10 days a different approach around the forth of July. You made sure the attacks continued. You talk about choices but this is really about ego. Try laying off the ad hominem attacks and contribute. The attacks are such a distraction and waste of space. I am trying to be nice for today at least.

  48. Davy on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 7:29 am 

    3rd world you have done nothing yet but attack. Say something please instead of the same worn out whine.

  49. Makati1 on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 7:45 am 

    My “attacks” have been only commenting on your attacks, Delusional Davy. When you ignore me, I ignore you. You have nothing to say that interests me.

  50. Makati1 on Thu, 19th Jul 2018 7:47 am 

    Get a life Davy. And get help before you take that hate and frustration out on a real person. You cannot hurt anyone here. Give it up.

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